Why is Microsoft Rewards limiting how much I can earn?

Not only am I only getting a few points for tasks, clicking news stories on XSX isn't giving me the 3 points either. Before I would get 90 points a day easy. Now I'm clicking them and getting next to nothing at all. I have a 1Gb broadband as well. Tight fisted M$. Probably butt hurt cause I cancelled my gamepass sub because I got sick of paying £12 every month for crappy games.

I've noticed this trend of rewards points getting worse too. For the past few weeks, the bonus points went away, the daily tasks netted fewer rewards points, and many of my searches weren't earning me points at all. This worsening trend has been getting increasingly annoying. As if things couldn't get any worse, I now got a notification saying that on Microsoft Edge that I have a cap for 9 points (3 searches) every 15 minutes. This (and yesterday) are the first times I will not be hitting the daily rewards points search cap and I'm now considering deleting Microsoft Edge off my MacBook Pro and deleting the Bing app off my iPhone. It's not just you guys: Microsoft Rewards points are progressively getting worse and it seems to be intentional and it's getting increasingly annoying.

Update: also just discovered my streaks were reset 42 days ago so I only have 42 days, which killed my motivation to keep going. I'm deleting the Bing apps from my phone and computer as I write this update, especially now that they ruined the Rewards system. I only really switched to Bing because I was excited about their AI assistant introduced back in February, but I have a ChatGPT account anyways so I'm not really missing out. The cooldown rule that they just introduced yesterday really pushed me over the edge (no pun intended) and I'm going back to the "uncool" Google and using ChatGPT when I need an AI

Yeah, riiiiight. "growth and expansion" More like "greed and expensive". Jesus Microsoft, don't you make enough already??? Why do all these large corporations just want more More MORE???? Tired of giving all us peons "so much"? Not like we haven't been backing you up since your inception. Not like we haven't been spending LOADS of hard-earned money on the **** you put out basically because you have forced us to. No. Now after only a couple of years you've got to take away one of the very few things you've given back to the many who have helped make you what you are today. Definitely plan on switching back to Yahoo or something else. Would be Google, but they're getting to be the same way too.

I think Microsoft wants us all to switch to Google search. I've been fine with Bing search results, but the only reason I have it set as a default on my computer and phone is because of the rewards. If this continues, I'm changing my default for searches and bye-bye Bing!

They've adjusted wording, which currently says: "Earn up to 150 points per day, 5 points per search. Earning starts with your third search." If they aren't counting searches past 3 in 15 minutes or whatever they keep changing it to, then "5 points per search" is a literal lie. If they want to limit the amount of rewards, that's their choice, but they need to clearly state whatever limitation there is.